Writing by Writers Manuscript Boot Camp Featuring Ada Limón

The Writing By Writers Manuscript Boot Camp is for writers who have a full book-length manuscript (novel, memoir, short story or poetry collection) and would like to engage with a small group for serious and productive responses. Faculty for the fall session include Pam Houston, Ada Limón—author of Bright Dead Things—Joshua Mohr, and Lidia Yuknavitch.

Ada Limón is the author of Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2015 by The New York Times. The Carrying is her fifth collection.

Full of bravado and introspection, of twenty-first-century feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact. Taking readers from New York City to rural Kentucky, these poems are consistently generous and accessible—yet complexly thought, felt, and lived.